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14-letter words containing a, l, e, p

  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • reprogrammable — capable of being programmed.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • respiritualize — to spiritualize again; reinvest with a spiritual character or meaning
  • retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • rufflette tape — a kind of heading tape for curtains
  • sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sales planning — the business activity of estimating future sales of products or services and setting sales targets
  • salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • samuel gompers — Samuel, 1850–1924, U.S. labor leader, born in England: president of the American Federation of Labor 1886–94, 1896–1924.
  • san pedro sula — a city in NW Honduras.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • scaphocephalus — a condition in which the length of the skull significantly exceeds its breadth
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-appraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • self-expanding — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • selling plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
  • selling-plater — a horse that competes in a selling race; an inferior horse.
  • semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
  • semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
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